British Cartoon Archive - biographies

‘AHG‘ was a topical cartoonist working for Time and Tide in...

Bernard Hollowood was born in Burslem, Staffordshire, on 3 June 1910. The son of Albert Hollowood, clerk and amateur...

A. E. Beard was born in Birmingham on 16 January 1902. He studied at the Birmingham School of Art, and...

Alex Noel Watson was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, on 2 December 1929, the son of Alex Grant Watson, a journalist,...

Born in 1900, Alfred J. Sindall drew the Paul Temple strip in the London Evening News from 1951 to...

Andrew Birch was born in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, in 1952. Despite a remarkable facility for drawing Pterodactyls, he was pushed...

Andrzej Krauze was born in a suburb of Warsaw on 7 March 1947. In 1967 he began studying painting and...

Andy Davey was born in London in 1956. He trained as a research chemist, but became a professional caricaturist and...

Anthony Haden-Guest was born in Paris on 2 February 1937. He was the son of Peter Haden-Guest, and grandson...

Antonia Yeoman was born Beryl Thompson on 24 July 1907 in Esk, Queensland, Australia. She was the daughter of Arthur...

“Ark” – real name unknown – was a joke cartoonist best known for his daily single-column cartoon panel “Almost...

Arthur John Ferrier was born in Glasgow on 15 November 1890, the son of John Ferrier, an organist. He...

Arthur Horner was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 10 May 1916, the son of Arthur Horner, a civil servant. When...

Michael Cummings was born in Leeds on 1 June 1919. His mother was an artist, and his father was...

Arthur Wragg was born near Manchester in 1903, and studied at Sheffield School of Art from about 1916. In 1923...

Artie Jackson – who signed himself ‘Artie’ – drew a single-column topical panel cartoon for the Daily Express from...

Barry Fantoni was born in London on 28 February 1940, the son of Peter Fantoni, an Italian-born painter. Educated at...

Barry Gurbutt was born in Louth in Lincolnshire on 13 January 1933. Educated in Lincoln, he did National Service before going to...

Basil Hone was born on 4 October 1926. The son of a school attendance officer, he was educated at the...

Ben Jennings was born in Hemel Hempstead, and began cartooning at school, recalling that in his maths class he’d...

Bernard Cookson was born in Manchester on 3 January 1937, the son of Richard Cookson, an engineer. From 1953...

Bernard Partridge was born in London on 11 October 1861, the youngest son of Professor Richard Partridge FRS, President of...

Bert Hackett was born in Birmingham on 28 June 1933, and attended the Birmingham College of Art from 1949 to...

Bert Thomas was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, on 13 October 1883, the son of Job Thomas, a sixty-five year old...

Bill Caldwell was born in Glasgow on 30 September 1946, the son of William McComish, an opera singer and musical...

Sidney William Martin – Bill Martin – was born in Swanbourne, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, on 28 December 1919,...

Bill McArthur was born in 1939. He studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art, then took a degree...

William Edward “Bill” Tidy was born in Tranmere, Cheshire, on 9 October 1933, the son of William Edward Tidy and...

Bob Hoare was born in 1942, and recalled that “when I was a child I used to draw all the...

Bob Moran went to Wellington School in Somerset, and graduated from the illustration degree at University College Falmouth in...

Joke cartoonist who contributed to Time and Tide in...

Brian Bagnall was born in Crumpsall, Manchester on 22 April 1921, the eldest son of Vincent Bagnall, a businessman working...

Michael ffolkes was born Brian Davis in London on 6 June 1925, the son of the commercial graphic artist Walter Lawrence...

Brian Walker was born in Brislington, Bristol, on 22 March 1926. When he was fourteen he enrolled on a...

Hugh Brian White was born in Luton on 4 April 1902. Brian White became an artist and film animator,...

Bryan Reading was born in London on 24 February 1935. After serving an apprenticeship in printing, he worked in advertising...

Bryan McAllister was born in Peterborough in 1945, but moved to Bath in his early teens and attended Keynsham Grammar...

Carl Giles was born in Islington, north London, on 29 September 1916. His father, Albert Giles, was a tobacconist,...

Charles Griffin was born in Ruislip, Middlesex, on 20 May 1946, the son of Alec Griffin, a furniture manufacturer’s agent....

Chris Duggan studied visual arts in London before becoming a cartoonist. He worked for the New Statesman and the New...

Chris Priestley was born in Hull on 25 August 1958. He was an avid reader of American comics as a...

Chris Riddell was born on 13 April 1962 in Cape Town, South Africa, where his father was an Anglican priest...

Christian Adams was born in Warlingham, Surrey, on 10 June 1966. He later recalled that waiting for the weekly comic...

Cinders McLeod was born in Toronto, Canada in 1960. She was encouraged to cartoon from an early age by...

Cliff Harper was born on 13 July 1949 in Chiswick, North London. His father was a postman, and his mother...

Born in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset on 6 February 1942, Clive Collins studied graphic design at Kingston School of Art in...

Clive Hudson was born in Liverpool on 31 January 1926. He worked for the Inland Revenue, but drew cartoons...

Born in Hindhead, Surrey, on 23 February 1938, Colin Wheeler studied at Farnham School of Art from 1954 to 1958, and...

Colin Whittock was born in Birmingham on 25 February 1940. Having failed “O” level art at the Central Grammar School,...

Cartoonist contributing to the Sunday Express in...

Cyril Jacob was born in Dulwich, London, on 25 February 1926, the second of four sons of William Charles...

An artist signing themselves “DAN” provided illustrations for the Daily Telegraph in...

A cartoonist signing himself “Danny” provided occasional cartoons for the Sunday People in...

Dave Brown was born in Barnehurst, Kent, on 4 December 1957 the son of Arthur Leslie Brown, a teacher....

Frequent contributor of cartoons and illustrations to the Sunday Times since 1989. Regular contributor to the Times Educational Supplement....

David Thomas Gaskill was born in Liverpool on 27 May 1939, the son of Ernest Gaskill, a sergeant in the...

David Smith was born in Leeds on 7 March 1955, and educated at Gotts Park Secondary School. With the help of a...

David Austin was born on 29 March 1935 in Chelmsford, Essex, the son of a shoe manufacturer. He attended...

David Banks was born in London on 7 August 1963 and was educated at Stoke Brunswick School and, from 1977...

David Hawker first contributed to Punch in 1967. He died in Basingstoke on 31 August...

David Haldane was born on 10 November 1954 in Blyth, Northumberland, and studied graphic design at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic. After...

David Hensley is a caricaturist and illustrator. Originally from Australia, he lives in north London and has contributed to a...

David Langdon was born in London on 24 February 1914, the son of Bennett Langdon and his wife Bess. Keen...

David Julian Levine was born on 20 December 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Harry Levine, a pattern...

David Low was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 7 April 1891, the son of David Brown Low, a Scottish-born...

David Myers was born in London on 8 December 1925, the son of Sidney Myers, a civil engineer, and his...

David Philip Millar was born on 28 August 1909, and started his professional cartooning career in the 1930s as...

David Rowe was born in Preston in 1924. In 1962 he began drawing the long-running “Playboy” series for the Daily...

David Shenton was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, on 20 May 1949. He was educated at Ashton-under-Lyne Grammar School from 1960,...

David Simonds was born in Pinner, Middlesex, on 18 May 1961 and after taking a one-year Foundation Course at St...

David Smith was born in Kings Lynn, Norfolk in 1943, and studied at both St Martin’s School of Art and...

David Wright was born in London on 12 December 1912, to parents who were both artists. When he was...

Debbie Obied is a cartoonist and illustrator who contributed to the Daily Telegraph in 1989, and later contributed to...

Derek Fullarton grew up in Salisbury, and at the age of twelve won a scholarship to Salisbury Art School. During...

Dick Graham was editorial cartoonist for the Manchester Evening News in...

Doig contributed to the Daily Telegraph in...

Staff cartoonist for the Edinburgh Evening News in...

Don Osmond was born in 1929. In 1946, at the age of seventeen, he joined the Southern Daily Echo in...

Donald Parker had what he called “an unspectacular Art School career teaching graphics, painting and drawing”, but also did some...

Don Roberts was born in Devon on 17 April 1936, the son of a hotelier. After spending more than seven...

Duncan Macpherson was born in Toronto, Canada, on 20 September 1924. He attended the North Toronto Collegiate Institute, and after...

Born in Humberstone, Leicestershire, on 22 April 1940, Ed McLachlan attended Wyggeston Grammar School and, from 1956 to 1959, Leicester College...

Illustrator working for the Sunday Times in...

Emilio Coia was born in Glasgow on 13 April 1911, the son of Giovanni Coia, an Italian immigrant who owned...

Eric Burgin was born in Maidenhead on 3 February 1926 and educated at Gordon Road School in the town. At...

E. H. Shepard was born on 10 December 1879 in St John’s Wood, London, the son of Henry Dunkin Shepard,...

Felix Bennett’s cartoons have appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman – including the strip ‘Brief Lives’...

Frank Whitford was born in Bishopstoke, Hampshire, on 11 August 1941 and is a self-taught artist. From 1965 to...

Frank Benier was born in Hindmarsh, South Australia on 13 December 1919. At the age of fourteen he began submitting...

Frank Boyle (also know as Francis Boyle) was born in Falkirk, Scotland in 1952. From 1964 to 1970 he attended...

Frank Brown was born on 8 May 1926 in Forest Gate, London. He was the son of Sidney Brown, a...

Frank Dickens was born in Hornsey, North London, on 2 February 1932, the son of a painter and decorator....

Frank Wallis Ford (1906-1970) was born on 28th June 1906 at Forest Hill, South London, the son of Harry Ford,...

Gary Barker was born in Fleetwood, Lancashire in 1963. He trained as a geologist and later as an environmental...

Gary Smith was born in Portsmouth on 5 December 1963 and is self-taught as a cartoonist. As he later recalled,...

Geoffrey Frederick Laws was born in 1947 in Blyth, a busy shipbuilding and coal exporting port in Northumberland. He...

After leaving art college, Geoff Thompson worked for ten years at Westland Helicopters before turning to full-time cartooning in...

George Adamson was born in New York City on 7 February 1913, the son of George William Adamson, an engineer....

George Dunnet contributed pocket cartoons to the News of the World, from at least 1961 to 1968, initially with...

George Chrystal was born in Aberdeen. After war service in the RAF as a pilot-instructor, he attended Gray’s School...

George Paterson Gale was born on 11 June 1929 in Leven, Fife. He went to a local school, and then...

Born in Barking, Essex, on 8 December 1915, George Smith left school at sixteen to work as a clerk in the...

Gerald Scarfe was born on 1 June 1936 in St John’s Wood, London, the son of Reginald Scarfe, a City...

Gerard Jerome Melling – known as “Ged” (pronounced Jed) – was born on 6 January 1934 in Stirling, the...

Gilbert Wilkinson was born in Liverpool in October 1891. He studied at Liverpool Art School for a year, then...

Glan Williams was born in Pentrechwyth, Swansea, Wales, on 1 September 1911. At the age of fourteen he won a...

Glyn Rees was born in Cardiff in 1946. Whilst at art college, Rees contributed some early cartoons to OUTRAGE...

Graham Allen is the son of the musician Clive Allen, who for ten years was Max Miller’s pianist. In...

Graham High was born in Dundee, Scotland, on 27 March 1957. He studied drawing and painting at Edinburgh College...

Gren Jones was born on 13 June 1934 in Hengoed, in the Rhymney Valley in Wales, the son of Harry...

Hans Bishoff was born in Amsterdam in 1939. From 1955 to 1959 he studied graphic design and illustration at the Rietveld Academy...

Haro Hodson was born in Glasgow on 9 February 1923, the second son of Canon R.V. Hodson, a hunting parson...

Harold Gittins was born in Manchester in 1895, the son of a Post Office worker. He became apprenticed to a...

Frank Hoar was born in India in 1909. He attended Plymouth College, Devon, and, at the age of fifteen, won...

Harold Underwood Thompson was born in West Kirby, Cheshire, on 9 April 1911. His father, Arthur Henry Thompson, was an...

Harry Guy Bartholomew was born in London on 17 October 1884, and, after leaving school at the age of fourteen,...

Harry Hargreaves was born in Manchester on February 9 1922, the son of a civil servant. He was educated...

Henry ‘Harry‘ New was born in December 1925. From 1983 to 1985 he drew the ‘AGOG’ strip in The...

Harry Smith was born in Glasgow, son of the lead violinist at the Carl Rosa Opera company.  He went...

Hector Breeze was born in London on 17 November 1928, and educated at Dartford Technical College. He was first...

Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton was born in Eton College, Windsor, on 23 May 1921. The second son of the...

Ian Knox was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 4 May 1943. After attending the Royal Belfast Academical Institution from...

Ian Pollock was born in Cheadle, Cheshire in 1950, the son of Gordon Pollock, a traditional claypipe manufacturer. He was...

Ingram Pinn was born in Bristol in 1950, and studied Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art before working as...

Jack Dunkley was born in Holloway, London, in 1906, and educated at Sir Hugh Middleton Secondary School. At the age...

Jack Greenall was born in Whitefield, Lancashire, in 1905. He sold his first cartoon at the age of fifteen, and...

Jacky Fleming was born in London in 1955, and attended the North London Collegiate School for Girls. A Foundation...

Jimmy Friell was born in Glasgow on 13 March 1912, the fifth of the seven children of James Friell, the...

James Austin Sillavan (JAS) was born in Cheshire in 1950, and studied Advertising at Manchester Art School. He spent...

Jeremy Banks [Banx] was born in London in 1959. He became a freelance cartoonist in 1980, and since 1989...

Jim Turnbull was born in 1930 in Maryhill, Glasgow, near Partick Thistle’s Firhill football ground. The son of a railway...

Joe McKeogh was a caricaturist and illustrator who worked for the Sunderland Echo in 1997 and signed himself...

Born in New York on 5 February 1922 and died in 2007. Bud Handelsman’s paternal grandfather was a Hungarian...

John Musgrave-Wood was born in Leeds on 22 February 1915, the son of Gerald Musgrave-Wood, a painter of landscapes and...

John Beyky contributed to the Sunday Times in...

John Peter Michael Donegan was born in Lewisham in August 1926. The eldest child of Thomas Donegan and Anne...

John McGlashan [Glashan] was born in Glasgow on 24 December 1927, the son of portrait painter and Royal Scottish Academician,...

John Holden is an illustrator who contributed to the Daily Telegraph in...

John Jensen was born John Gibson in Sydney, Australia, on 8 August 1930, the son of the cartoonist Jack Gibson....

John Kent was born on 21 June 1937 in Oamaru, New Zealand, the son of R.C.H. Kent of the...

John Longstaff was born in Darlington, Co. Durham, on 25 June 1949. He studied graphics at Teesside College of...

John Miles was the son of a policeman, and was born on 21 August 1934 in the police station at...

Born in Guildford, Surrey, on 13 August 1949, John Minnion is largely self-taught as an artist. In the early...

John Gerald Christopher Ryan was born in Edinburgh on 4 March 1921, the youngest son of the diplomat Sir...

John Sewell contributed to the Sunday Times in...

John Springs was born in Chapeltown, Leeds, on 6 February 1962, the son of a Latvian garage owner. After...

“Jolly” was a pseudonym of Tom...

Jonathan Pugh was born in Worcester on 17 February 1962, the son of John Mervyn Cullwick Pugh, a Bromsgrove solicitor....

Joe Lee was born in Burley-in-Wharfedale, near Leeds, on 16 May 1901. He won a scholarship to Leeds Grammar School,...

Jules Feiffer was born on 26 January 1929 in the Bronx, New York City. After attending the James Monroe...

Kate Charlesworth was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, in 1950. Educated at Wombwell High School, Barnsley, from 1961 to 1968,...

Kathryn Lamb is one of the UK’s leading female cartoonists. Lamb’s parents worked for the Foreign Office, and her...

Keith Waite was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, on 19 March 1927, the son of Albert Waite, the owner...

Kelly was a topical cartoonist who contributed to the Observer in...

Ken Cox is an illustrator who studied at Harrow College of Art from 1960 to 1967, and at the...

Kenneth Mahood was born in Belfast on 4 February 1930, claiming to have been brought up “in a religious community...

Ken Pyne was born in London on 30 April 1951, the son of John Ernest Pyne, a boot-repairer. Self-taught,...

Kevin Kallaugher was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA, and took a degree in visual and environmental studies at Harvard...

Kimon Evan Marengo was born on 22 January 1904 in Zifta, Egypt, the son of Evangelos Marangos, a Greek...

Christopher Williams was born in the Wirral, Cheshire, on 30 December 1951, the son of Aubrey Williams, a local...

Les Barton was born on 8 December 1923 in Wareham, Dorset. A self-taught artist, he started work at the...

Leslie David ‘Les Gibbard was born on 26 October 1945 in Kaiapoi, New Zealand, the son of Ray and...

Leslie Illingworth was born in Barry, Glamorgan, on 2 September 1902. His father was Richard Illingworth, a Yorkshire quantity surveyor...

Lou McKeever (Bluelou) recalls that she ‘learnt to draw from her brother’s discarded 2000AD comics, before studying fine art...

A cartoonist signing themselves “M” produced the series “KINKS” for the Daily Mail in...

Malcolm Bird is a cartoonist and illustrator who has worked for numerous British magazines and newspapers, and has also...

Malky McCormick was born in Glasgow in 1943, beside the football stadium in Hampden Park. His first cartoon was...

Margaret Belsky was born Margaret Constance Owen in Dorset on 20 June 1919. Nicknamed ‘Cooee’ by her Australian-Irish father,...

Mark Boxer was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, on 19 May 1931, the son of Steven Boxer, an army officer....

Mark Reeve has worked as a cartoonist on the Mail on Sunday since...

Martha Richler was born in 1964 to Canadian parents. She was born in London, but later moved with her...

Martin Honeysett was born in Hereford on May 20 1943 and brought up in Croydon. He went to Selhurst...

Martin Ross was a staff cartoonist on the Yorkshire Evening Post, working at least from 1997 to 2002, and...

Martin Rowson was born in London on 15 February 1959, and is the adopted son of Dr K.E. Rowson, a...

Martyn Turner was born on 24 June 1948 in Wanstead, Essex, the son of Ernest Turner, a general dealer. He...

Mary Williams was an American journalist and caricaturist born in Oakland, California, on 27 June 1869. In 1890 she...

Mathew Abraham was born in Mavelikara, Kerala, India on 11 June 1924, the son of A.M. Mathew, a lawyer....

Matt Buck studied American history and politics at Hull University, where he worked on the student newspaper, Hullfire. The...

Matthew Pritchett was born on 14 July 1964, the son of Daily Telegraph columnist Oliver Pritchett and grandson of...

Maurice Bartlett, who signed himself ‘MB’, was a topical cartoonist whose style was apparently influenced by Quentin Blake and...

A cartoonist signing himself “Mac McKenzie” provided a cartoon for the News of the World in...

Melville “Mel” Calman was born in Stamford Hill in London on 19 May 1931. His father, Clement Calman, was a...

Merrily Harpur was educated at Headington School, Oxford, and Trinity College, Dublin. After a period restoring oil paintings she...

Michael Atchison was born in Victoria, Australia, on 8 April 1933. He studied at King’s College, Adelaide, from 1946...

Michael John Attwell was born in Watford on 16 January 1943. Although a talented artist as a child, he...

Michael Bateman was born in 1932, and was educated at Abingdon School, Berkshire, and at Oxford University, where he...

Michael Daley was born in Hull, Yorkshire, on 15 January 1944 and was educated at Hull High School for...

Michael Heath was born on 13 October 1935 in Bloomsbury, London, the only child of George Heath, whom he...

Mike Molloy was born in Hertfordshire on 22 December 1940. He was educated at Ealing Junior School and Ealing...

Mike Williams was born in Liverpool on 24 February 1940, he attended Quarry Bank Grammar School. A self-taught artist,...

Morten Morland was born in 1979 and grew up in a small town in Norway, recalling later that ‘I...

Neil Bennett (‘NB’) was born in Warsop, Nottinghamshire, on 13 January 1941, the son of Stanley Bennett, a headmaster....

Nicolas – originally Nicholas – Bentley was born on 14 June 1907 in Hampstead, London. The son of the...

Nicholas Withycombe Garland was born on 1 September 1935 in Hampstead, London, the son of Thomas Garland, a doctor, and...

Nick Hayes is a graphic novelist, illustrator, and designer, who lives in East London. In 2004 Hayes was one...

Nick Newman was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, on 17 July 1958, the son of Tony Newman, an RAF...

Nicola Jennings was born in London on 10 September 1958. Brought up in the family home of Babington House,...

“Niky” was a cartoonist best known for a wordless series – usually three unframed panels – which appeared at...

Noel Ford was born on 22 December 1942 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the son of Thomas Joseph Ford and Martha...

Nolan was a political cartoonist working for the Manchester Evening News in 1974 and...

Norman Mansbridge was born on 22 July 1911 in Wanstead, Essex, the son of Arthur Mansbridge, a writer and...

Norman Thelwell was born on 3 May 1923 in Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire, the son of a machinist. He was...

O’Brien drew political cartoons and caricatures for the Observer in 1998 and 1999, the New Statesman in 1999 and 2000,...

Osbert Lancaster was born in Notting Hill, London, on 4 August 1908. His father was Robert Lancaster, a businessman,...

Patrick Blower was born in Brussels on 10 January 1959, the son of Michael Blower, an English architect. Educated...

Patrick Chappatte was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1967, of a Lebanese mother and a Swiss father. His family...

Paul Rigby was born in Sandringham, Melbourne, Australia, on 25 October 1924, the second son of a telephone engineer....

Paul Steadman contributed a photo-collage series entitled ‘Bubbles’ to the short-lived London Daily News in...

Paul Michael Thomas was born in Radlett, Hertfordshire, on 3 November 1961. His parents took the Daily Telegraph, and...

Paul Tucker trained at the London College of Printing, where he studied photography, and at Goldsmiths College, London, where...

Paul White was editorial cartoonist for the London Evening News in 1966, and also drew joke cartoons for Reveille...

Percy Fearon was born in Shanghai, China, on 6 September 1874, of English parents. His father then moved to business...

Peter Ellis gained a degree in architecture, and worked for several London architectural practices, before returning to illustration, which...

Chester Chronicle, 1997. Peter Bellingham’s cartoons, originally under the name Scoot but now Scooter McKenzie can still be found...

Peter Brookes was born in Liverpool on 28 September 1943, the son of RAF Squadron leader G. H. Brookes....

Peter Clarke was born on 18 September 1937. He was political cartoonist on Time & Tide in 1961 and...

Peter Cooper drew single-panel topical cartoons in the Observer in 1964, and has also drawn general joke cartoons for...

Peter Maddocks was born in Birmingham on 1 April 1928, the son of a bus driver. In 1939, when...

Peter Schrank was born in St Gallen, Switzerland, on 23 September 1952. Educated at Basel Art School from 1973 to...

Phil Colman was born in Bradford on 24 October 1911. He went to Bradford College of Art, then moved...

Philip Emms was born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, on 2 July 1941. After studying aeronautical engineering at Hatfield...

Philip Zec was born in London on 25 December 1909, the fourth of the eleven children of Simon Zecanovsky, a...

“Pic” contributed political cartoons to the Guardian in...

A cartoonist signing themself “Pozzi” provided a cartoon for the Sunday People in...

Quentin Blake was born in Sidcup, Kent, on 16 December 1932, the son of a civil servant. He later...

Ralph Sallon was born Rachmiel David Zelon (or Zielun) in the village of Sheps near Warsaw, in what was then...

Ralph Steadman was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, on 15 May 1936, the son of Lionel Raphael Steadman, a commercial...

Ranan Lurie was born on 26 May 1932 in Port Said, Egypt. He was educated at Herzelia College, Tel Aviv,...

Raymond Lowry was born in 1944 in Cadishead, near Manchester, the youngest of three sons of Jack Lowry, who...

Raymond Jackson was born in the Middlesex Hospital, London, on 11 March 1927, the son of Maurice Jackson, a tailor...

Reg Smythe was born Reginald Smyth in Hartlepool, in the north of England, on 10 July 1917. He was the...

Rex Audley was born in Cobridge in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in 1927. He was educated at Wolstanton County Grammar School...

Richard Cole was born on 19 August 1942 in Wimbledon, London, the son of Archibald George Cole, an ecclesiastical...

Richard Horne was born in Coventry on 9 May 1960. He was the son of Henry Horne, a chartered...

Richard Willson was born in London on 15 May 1939, the son of an importer of bone and horn....

Richard Yeend was born in London on 5 April 1945, and was educated at Canterbury Cathedral Choir School, Kings College,...

Rick Brookes was born in Bangor, Wales, on 16 June 1948, the son of an electrician. He studied art...

Ridgway drew cartoons for the London Recorder, and the Onlooker (journal of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations)...

Robert Coram was the son of Sydney Coram, a prominent advertising man, and attended St Dunstan’s School, Catford, London....

Robert Geary was born in Battersea, London, on 15 January 1931. He studied at Hammersmith School of Art from...

Robertson contributed a cartoon to the Independent in...

Robert Stewart “Bob” Sherriffs was born in Arbroath, Scotland, on 13 February 1906, the son of a flax merchant....

Robert Thompson was born in Burton Pidsea, Yorkshire, on 21 July 1960, the son of Wildon Thompson, a groundsman....

Roger Law was born on 6 September 1941 in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, the son of a builder. He attended Littleport...

Roger Mahoney was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire in 1933. From 1947 to 1951 studied art at the Southern College...

Ronald Niebour was born in Streatham, London, on 4 April 1903, and educated at Barry County School with Leslie Illingworth....

Ron McTrusty was born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, on 8 June 1948. He studied at Kirkcaldy High School from...

A cartoonist signing themselves “Rosemary” drew the single-frame series “Keeping Up” for the Sunday Telegraph in...

Roy Dewar was born in Battersea, London, and left school aged 15. After the death of Timothy Birdsall in...

Roy Raymonde was born on 26 December 1929 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, the son of Juliana Patricia Quinn and Barry...

Roy Ullyett was born in Leytonstone, Essex, on 16 March 1914, the son of Henry John Emerson Ullyett, Secretary-Manager of...

Sally Artz was born in north London on 14 March 1935, the daughter of Benjamin Artz, a painter. As...

Satoshi Kambayashi is an illustrator based in Brighton who signs himself ‘Satoshi’. He has worked as a book illustrator,...

Scott Clissold was born in Wales in 1978, and began working as a weekly editorial cartoonist for a local...

Severn drew Papas-style cartoons for the Yorkshire Post in...

Sidney Strube (pronounced “Stroobee”) was born in Bishopsgate, London, on 30 December 1892, the son of Conrad Frederick Strube, a...

Simon Farr was born in Harrow, Middlesex, on 9 November 1950. He was educated at Harrow School of Fine...

Parker was a cartoonist signing himself ‘Spark’, who contributed to the Daily Sketch in...

Stanley Franklin was born on 30 October 1930 in Bow, London, the son of a coppersmith. While still at school...

Stan McMurtry was born in Edinburgh on 4 May 1936, but moved to Birmingham at the age of eight. His...

Stephen Roth was born in Czechoslovakia in 1911. In 1931 he moved to Prague where he drew sports cartoons,...

Steve Bell was born on 26 February 1951 in Walthamstow, London, where his father was an engineer. Bell was...

Steve Best, who signs himself ‘Bestie’, was born in England in 1954, and studied Fine Art at Bristol. He...

Steve Fricker was born in London in 1952. He attended Holland Park Comprehensive school and gained a BA in...

Steven Camley was born in 1961, and developed his drawing skills on a two-year design and illustration course at...

Steve Way was born in Plymouth on 1 January 1959, the son of Colin Way, an electrical engineer. Way...

In 1976 Tim Holder spent two short periods as Franklin’s relief on The Sun, and he later worked as...

Timothy Birdsall was born in Cambridge on 10 May 1936. He attended Cambridge University, where he was a contemporary...

Tim Sanders was born on 8 October 1957 in Castle Donnington, Leicestershire. He attended the King Edward VI School...

Tom Burkett was born Tom Peter McLaughlin in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 8 May 1976. After attending Higham Lane School, Newcastle...

Tom Cottrell was born in South Mimms, Hertfordshire in 1890, the son of Charles Henry Cottrell, who moved to...

Tom Johnston was born in Belfast on 18 May 1953. In 1972 he enrolled at Leeds Art College, and...

Gilbert Tom Webster was born in Bilston, Staffordshire, on 17 July 1886, the son of an ironmonger. He was...

Tony Holland was born in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, on 7 August 1932, the son of a schoolmaster. He went to...

Tony Pomeroy was production controller of the Western Morning News Company, who contributed a cartoon to the Western Morning...

Tony Weare was born in Wincanton, Somerset, on 1 January 1912. Tony Weare later recalled that he was always...

“TROW” has been claimed as the pseudonym of Frank Eric Smith, who was born in Salisbury on 2 March 1908, lived...

Van Howell was born on 3 August 1948 at Southampton, Long Island, New York, the son of a stockbroker....

Varney was a pocket cartoonist on the Daily Mail, working from at least 1961 to...

Victor Weisz was born at 14 Regensburgerstrasse, Berlin, on 25 April 1913. His father was Dezso Weisz, a Hungarian Jewish...

Enzo Apicella was born on 26 June 1922 in Naples, the son of Salvatore Apicella, a local councillor. From...

Wadsworth was a political cartoonist who contributed to the Daily Telegraph when Nicholas Garland took a break in...

Walter Ernest (“Wally”) Fawkes was born in Vancouver, Canada, on 21 June 1924, and came to England with his family...

Walter Peter Hughes was born in 1920, and on leaving school went to Lincoln College Oxford to read medicine....

Iain White was cartoonist on the Scotsman, from at least 1985 to...

William Douglas ‘Doug’ Smith was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, on 29 October 1916. His father, Allison...

Bill Geldart was born in Marple, Cheshire in 1936. Educated at Hyde Grammar school, he spent his National Service...

William John Philpin Jones – known as John Jones – was born in Llandrindod Wells, Wales, on 17 August 1913,...

W.K Haselden was born in Spain on 3 December 1872, the son of Adolphe Henry Haselden, the English director...

Bill Papas was born on 15 July 1927 in Ermelo in the Transvaal, South Africa, the son of Kostas...

William George Rushton was born in Chelsea on 18 August 1937, the only child of John Atherton Rushton, a...

Will Spencer was born in the East End of London on 23 April 1921. He trained at his local...